My son tells me I make too much fuss about religion and its core, the supernatural (God). He argues it's enough to be kind to others to make it to heaven ('if there is heaven' - I bet he adds when I'm not looking, and compromises the kind of religious indoctrination I'm brilliant at).
I tell him the kind of kindness he's talking about isn't good enough - it's natural, it's normal. And normal isn't good enough, normal is death-bound.
Does he expect his body to live for ever if he does to it what's merely normally good?
Perhaps just as - in our contaminated context - regardless of whether we treat our body normally badly or normally well, it's still death-bound, so our soul too - regardless of whether it's normally unkind or normally kind, it's still hell-bound; unless it gets some highly abnormal treatment.
